Yves Klein

Person · Open Library

Born

1928

Died

1962

Works

39

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

London

Active from

1928

Active to

1962

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

996

Total plays

3,172

Yves Klein was a French artist and is considered as an important figure in post-war European art. New York critics of Klein's time classify him as Neo-Dada, but other critics have classified Klein as an early, though "enigmatic" Post-Modernist. Klein is well known for the photograph: "Saut dans le vide" (Leap into the Void), which apparently shows him jumping off a wall, and arms outstretched towards the pavement. He used the photograph as evidence of his ability to undertake unaided lunar trav

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

   · 2012 · cited 65,134x

2. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

   · 1983 · cited 39,032x

3. <b>lavaan</b>: An<i>R</i>Package for Structural Equation Modeling

   · 2012 · cited 22,098x

4. Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis

   · 2018 · cited 11,019x

5. Sarcopenia: European consensus on definition and diagnosis

   · 2010 · cited 9,936x

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Music

Quotes

• “Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not. They are pre-psychological expanses, red, for example, presupposing a site radiating heat.. .All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.”
• “In 1946, when I was still an adolescent, I went and signed my name on the other side of the sky during a fantastic 'realistico-imaginary' voyage.”
• “To project my mark outside myself – but I did it! [walking in the streets of Venice Klein wore a shirt imprinted with the marks of his own hands and feet].. .I found myself confronting everything that was psychological in me. I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood...”
• “It was pure chance that led me to judo. Judo has helped me to understand that pictorial space is above al the product of spiritual exercises. Judo is in fact the discovery by the human body of a spiritual space.”
• “Dubbed as a Knight of the Order of Saint Sebastian, I espoused the cause of pure colour, which has been invaded by guile, occupied and oppressed in cowardly fashion by line and its manifestation; drawing in Art. I aimed to defend and deliver it, and lead it to triumph and final glory.”
• “I was trying to show colour, but I realized at the private view that the public were prisoners of a preconceived point of view and that, confronted with all these surfaces of different colours, they responded far more to the inter-relationship of the different propositions, they reconstituted the elements of a decorative polychromy.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1928-04-28 ) 28 April 1928, Nice , France

Died

6 June 1962 (1962-06-06) (aged 34), Paris, France

Known for

Painting, performance art

Notable work

IKB 191 (1962), Monotone Symphony (1949)

Movement

Nouveau réalisme

Spouse

Rotraut Klein-Moquay

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Wikidata facts

Official website

www.yvesklein.com

Image

Yves Klein in front of one of his canvases (1962) (cropped).jpg

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